As child-molestation claims dogged a Boston Archdiocese priest in 1995, church officials promised that a New York City hostel was a “good placement” for him despite a nun’s fears that he was a “time bomb,” a magazine reports.

And Vanity Fair magazine also says the Rev. Paul Shanley – an openly gay cleric who advocated man-boy sex – re-created “Sodom and Gomorrah” in Palm Springs, Calif., with poolside sex, suggesting his lover become a “porn star,” and renting actor Tony Curtis’ old house for his randy pals.

“Sex is all he talked about – it’s what drove his whole life,” said Kevin English, 30, a California man who claims he began an affair with Shanley as a sexually confused and vulnerable 17-year-old. Shanley currently faces unrelated child-rape charges in Massachusetts.

English said Shanley offered his body for sexual experimentation in a church rectory – “He did terrible things – perverted things … I felt so guilty, I felt evil all over,” Vanity Fair quotes him as saying.

Shanley also encouraged English to have sex with as many partners as possible and to watch porn with him – and also tried to pimp for the young man, the magazine reports. At the time, Shanley was living in a gay motel in Palm Springs he owned with another Boston priest.

The Boston Archdiocese was well aware that Shanley was running wild, with documentation that he spoke in favor of pedophile sex, and that he had admitted molesting boys.

In 1995, Shanley was working at Leo’s House – a Catholic-affiliated hostel in the Chelsea section of Manhattan – when one of his co-workers, a nun, was called by someone saying Shanley was a child molester.

Sister Anne Karlin wrote to Bernard Cardinal Law – the head of the Boston Archdiocese and Shanley’s boss – with her concerns.

“Here I am with this time bomb. Would you be so kind as to clarify Fr. Paul’s integrity and reputation and character,” the letter said, according to Vanity Fair.